FOLKSTON, Ga. — In large swaths of the Okefenokee Swamp, people once outnumbered alligators.No longer.The Okefenokee, in southeastern Georgia, is a rare and hopeful place where nature has begun to heal some of the rough treatment it received at the hands of commerce a century ago.That lesson became very real as I nosed my kayak into a small meadow of waterlilies, wondering if I'd see alligators that day.And then the still waters of the Okefenokee suddenly started roiling around [...]
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